This photograph of an abandoned hotel in Idlewild is part of a series of thirty-one color photographs Douglas made as the first phase of a film project exploring Detroit's decaying industrial and residential landscape. The hotel depicted in the photograph, with its white clapboard front and brightly painted doors, was built as a summer retreat for African-American workers. In its current dilapidated state, it poignantly encapsulates the artist's interest in failed utopias and the marks of history on the urban landscape.